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The employment and pensions practice at CMS focuses on assisting international clients from the life sciences, hospitality, consumer goods and energy sectors with transactional employment matters. The group's recent workload includes advising on restructurings and reorganisations, as well as handling whistleblowing investigations. Practice head Katja van Kranenburg-Hanspians has extensive experience in advising on whistleblower matters, as well as assisting with compliance and co-determination issues. Michiel van Dijk left the firm in June 2024.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Very user friendly with fantastic advice during meetings/conference calls. Very easy for non-legal professionals to engage which is really helpful for us as legal team.’

  • ‘Katja van Kranenburg-Hanspians is incredibly knowledgeably and a very pragmatic advisor. Very user friendly. Fleur van Assendelft de Coningh is a clear advisor with deep knowledge. Very user friendly.’

  • ‘Very pragmatic and hands on, always easy to reach with fast response times. Sensible economic and practical solutions.'

  • ‘Katja van Kranenburg-Hanspians is an outstanding lawyer. Confident, very experienced, a employment and labour law expert, calm and very pragmatic. She is also personable and simply a pleasure to work with.’

  • ‘Sharp and practical advice that takes client priorities into account. ’

  • ‘Melanie Lane and her team provided exceptional service in the context of a very complex international restructuring project. Her ability to optimise the approach by taking into account our overall priorities by considering business risk trade-offs was particularly appreciated, as was her very high degree of availability.’

  • ‘Our group mainly deals with Fleur van Assendelft de Coningh, who has proven to be a great legal advisor. ’

  • ‘I always get prompt, thoughtful and commercially appropriate advice from Niels Koene, and his team Alette de Groot and Mila Janse. I am kept up to date with steps that the team are taking in support of any case work. The team seem to take pride in helping me to get the result that is right for me as a client and for my company. Niels is clear in his advice whilst at the same time laying out the options and risks.’

Key clients

  • Accor Hotels
  • AECOM
  • Amgen Europe
  • Arla
  • BMC Software
  • Choice Logistics
  • Coty
  • Dana
  • Expro North Sea ltd
  • Garantibank
  • Korn Ferry
  • LCI Industries
  • Nuvei
  • Qatar Airways
  • Rosier Nederland
  • TJX (TK Maxx)
  • Universal Music
  • Vebego
  • Wella
  • Westwing

Work highlights

Advised Wella on a large global restructuring.
Assisted Universal Music with drafting and negotiating its European works council agreement.
Advised Nuvei Corp on the global movement of employees into the Netherlands.

Practice head

Katja van Kranenburg-Hanspians

Other key lawyers

Fleur van Assendelft de Coningh; Melanie Lane; Niels Koene; Alette de Groot; Mila Janse; Ayşegül Avcı